The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-06-18

their own affairs without the dictation OF
Assembly 40, and this claim has cost them
ex-commuuicatien But the end is not
yet; solid body Of six or seven thousand
men Is not easily crushed out and II is
not impossible that in the next few months
YOU may see two national councils Of the
K. of L.. one sitting in Philadelphia and
tbs other In New York and each claiming
TO be the original Jacobs. The work Of
disintegration has begun aud the end is net
difficult to see.
OF course, our hearts are stirred at the
terrible stories of eviction in Ireland, but
in the city ef Brooklyn the other night, an
eviction occurred quite as shocking as any
thing that has occurred on the Landsdowne
estates, or in any other part Of Ireland. A
dissipated Irishman and his wife were
eyicted from their wretched room one night
Last week. 1t was storming at the time,
and tho woman had Little girl about four
years old, who was dying Of negseot starva-
tion and fever. For some hours they wan
dered about in the rain drenehed to the
skin, and at last they met policeman. who
took them to the station-house, When
they arrived the child was dead in the
mothers arms, Across he river in
Jersey City there was another eviction on
Monday, an old couple over ninety years Of
age. The man, had been an eminent pro-
fessor, a gentleman Of fortune and educA-
tion; but misfortune had overtaken him
ir his old sge, and he was reduced to the
direst straits of poverty. At last the day
came when he could no longer pay his rent,
and the people resolved to send the old
couple to the cennty poorhouse. The
wagon came to the house to remove theinS
and when the old Professor realized that
every hope of independence was gone, he
swallowed dose Of cyanide Of potassium,
and so ended swiftly all earthly trouble.
New York has been honorsd tbs week in
having among its lions three OF the most
notorious criminals to be found in the
United States, If net in the world-Jimmy
Hope the great crscksman, Charles Brock
way the forger, and Sheeney Mike, one Of
the most daring and successful thieves in
history or fiction. Sheeney Mike is many
sided man. just imagine the courage Of a
man who could go into Wall Street bank
in open day. deliberately pull off his coat,
hang 1t up on nail, put on a duster and
skull cap, clap pen behind his ear. then
walk into the safe. take a package of $780,
900 in bills, and walk off with 1t right under
the eyes OF the cashier and all the other
officers. Not once, but dozen times he
has walked Into bank where man had
just received large amount of money from
the teller; as he was counting 1t Mike
} would call his attention TO a ten dollar bill
that had dropped on the hoer; as the man
! stopped to pick it up, Mike would grail
= half the pile, and before the man discovered
, his loss would make bis escape. He wa:
, mixed up with Mother Mandlebaum ant
gave her away to the police. Jimmy Hops
! is the man who got over two millions ant
a quarter of cash and securities cut OF til,
( Manhattan bank in broad daylight, Will,
the policeman Nugent kept watch upon th
$ corner, and when Jimmy Hope had cracke,
t the safe carried off million Of the saeuritie
: in tho tail of his police coat. Brockway /
: the man who engraved the plates for tn,
: thousand dollar bond, a hundred THOUSAND
: dollars worth OF which were taken fro0
= one Doyle in Chicago, SO finely executes
/ that the government experts found difficult
c in detecting them.
v Our summer hegira has commenced, an
s the steamers are crowded for Europe; th
d streets are filled with express wagon
o loaded with the trunks of the tourists
u Ministers, schoolteachers, doctors an
6 lawyers figure in the list. There are yer
If few newspaper men among them. Oecas
l. ionally you meet lucky fellow like Pulitzer
d but the men who do the real newspape
n work are like Ixiop, tied to the wheel. N
o eight hc;iis for them; On half holiday; the
e can only hope to tell on till the old cha
:, with the hourglass and the scytbs taps q
d the door, and calls them off from labor I
Ii refreshment. BROADBRIM.